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• It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Perfect, Mind, Desire

  "Treasures of Love & Inspiration". Book by Marjorie Barrows, p. 278, 1993.

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• Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Quiet, Fame, Bedfellows

  'Essais' (1580) bk. 1, ch. 39

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• Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Body, Sweetness

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.174, Wordsworth Editions

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• Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Success, Humility, Order

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• First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Peace, Firsts, Finding Peace

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• Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Life, Confidence, Peace

  Thomas (a Kempis) (1850). “The Imitation of Christ: Four Books”, p.67

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• Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Humor, Peace And Tranquility, Good Humor

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.16, Modern Library

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• There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

  Epictetus

  Mind, Way, Commit

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• Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

  George Santayana

  Achievement, Creative, Action

  "10 Quotes: Inspire and Motivate" by Sura College of Competition, p. 28, August 1, 2004.

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• Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Wisdom, Compassion

  "Be Happy Now: Simple Steps for Enjoying Life". Book by Laura Barrette Shannon, p. 96, March 27, 2012.

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  You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Meaningful, Peace

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• Tranquil as a forest, but on fire within, once you find your center, you are sure to win.

  David Zippel

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Winning

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• Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

  Cyril Connolly

  Water, Repose, Truest

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Peace, Materialism

  "Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way".

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• Patience and tranquility of mind contribute more to cure
  our distempers as the whole art of medicine

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Art, Medicine, Mind

  Leopold Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1963). “Briefe und Aufzeichnungen: 1787-1857”

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  Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

  William Wordsworth

  Powerful, Poetry, Feelings

  Lyrical Ballads 2nd ed., preface (1802) See Dorothy Parker 24

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• Take refuge in silence. You can be here or there or anywhere. Fixed in silence, established in the inner 'I', you can be as you are. The world will never perturb you if you are well founded upon the tranquility within. Gather your thoughts within. Find out the thought centre and discover your Self-equipoise. In storm and turmoil be calm and silent. Watch the events around as a witness. The world is a drama. Be a witness, inturned and introspective.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Drama, Self, Silence

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• I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

  Peter Stuyvesant

  Peace, Heart, Loyal

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• Yoga ia a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are.

  Erich Schiffmann

  Inspirational, Truth, Moving

  Erich Schiffmann (2013). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Motivation, Action, Vain

  Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor”, p.152, Harper Collins

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• Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart

  Lady Gaga

  Hard Work, Heart, Mean

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• People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age.... Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Spiritual, Mean, Maturity

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1986). “The Wisdom of Heschel”, p.114, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inner Peace, Useless

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Peace: The Words and Inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.89, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

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• The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Justice, World

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.395, NYU Press

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• We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Wind, Dull

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories”, p.374, Bottletree Books LLC

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